Price Paid: US $139
Features: 10
The Vox DC5 is a 5 watt combo with a 6.5" speaker.
It uses 6 "C" batteries or the suppled 9 volt Wall Mart.
It measures 10.5" X 10.5" X 7"
The controls on top are: Input, on/off Switch, Amp Style Knob
Gain, Tone, Master, a Tap Button, Effects Edit Knob, Bypass Button
and a Effects Knob.
The Style Knob has 11 amp types: Clean 1, Clean 2, Blues 1, Blues 2,
Blues 3, Crunch 1, Crunch 2, Higain 1, Higain 2, Higain 3 and Drive.
The Effects Knob has 11 settings: Auto Wah, Comp, Comp+Phaser, Comp+Chorus, Chorus+Delay, Chorus+Reverb, Flanger+Reverb,
Tremolo+Reverb, Rotary+Reverb, Delay, and Reverb.
The back panel has a (5W-1.5W-0.5W) switch, a line/phone 1/4"
output, Aux In, Mic 1/4" input with a volume knob and a DC 12V input.
There is a back panel 8.5" X 3.9" that is held on with Velcro
it allows access to the 6 "C" batteries.
With the input on top and the two on the back three different instruments can be played at once through this amp.
Sound Quality: 8
I use this little amp. for the melody side of my Chapman Stick.
For the bass side I use a Roland Bass 30 Cube.
I play restaurant gigs with this setup and the DA5 is loud enough
and sounds very nice.
The speaker is the weak link on this amp, a better one would help
this amp sound even better.
I mostly use this amp for clean tones and found that the setting
Clean 1 and 2 did not work for me at all. The sound was thin on the
high strings and boomy on the low ones.
Crunch 1 was the one that worked for me.
It sounds like its modeled after an AC30.
A nice clean tone that is very responsive to touch.
The effects sound very good for a amp in this price range and with
the Tap Button, Edit 1 Knob and Bypass Button a good bit of editing
can be done.
With this system you turn the Edit Knob or press one of the two
buttons while turning the Edit Knob. A bit confusing as to what
button controls what effect parameter but it works well.
Reliability: 7
Seems fairly sturdy for an amp in this price range but I don't
expect it to last for a long time. Time will tell.
Customer Support: N/A
Don't know?
Overall Rating: 9
Overall a nice little amp for the money.
I also own the Roland Microcube and although I like it, the Vox DA5
give you more amp and features for a just few dollars more.
I do think that the Microcube is built better than the DA5 though.
I've been playing music for about 40 years and feel that Vox has
put out some great products lately.
Submitted by dparr at 12/22/2005 22:28
